Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge

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The Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge is a post-tensioned, double-cell concrete box girder bridge with four travel lanes spanning the West Passage of Narragansett Bay. The bridge spans 7,350 ft and links the towns of North Kingstown, Rhode Island and the island town of Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is part of Rhode Island State Highway 138 and is part of the route to Newport, Rhode Island for traffic heading northbound on Interstate 95.

The bridge was completed in 1992 and was built alongside the two lane bridge that had served the same route since 1940. The "Old Jamestown Bridge" has never been dismantled and has been declared a hazard to navigation by the United States Coast Guard.